I watched the 2025 Reith Lectures today. They were fascinating.

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

Rand Paul: "All these designations are steps towards war -- calling drug runners terrorists, saying, 'Oh, if they have a designation'-- Well, how'd they get it? We gave it to them. Why is the former president of Honduras released? So some narcoterrorists are okay & others we're going to blow up"

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." - Seneca

🚨 Russia claims the US promised it Ukrainian territory. 📍 It isn’t America’s land to give away. 📍 Europe 🇪🇺didn’t ask DC to lead talks. 🔥 Ukraine did not ask DC to trade borders. 🇺🇦 📍 Why is pressure never on Russia to leave? 👉 Stop enabling Moscow, Washington🇺🇸.

Unfair criticism? Explain your confident stance

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

“We make our purpose.” - Carl Sagan

“We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth." - Seneca

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

Resurrecting my old blog markuoreallyus.ca/2025/12/11/i...

The threat on our border is real. Canada is looking at building a citizen's army. In the meantime, it falls to ordinary Canadians to maintain the boycott because it is putting immense pressure on the gangster regime in Washington. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Bet you didn’t use real shepherds, though

Not just true in America, so those die-hard boosters of whatever supremacy are going to have to step aside.

"Throw out your misperceptions and you’ll be fine." — Marcus Aurelius

"Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?" Marcus Aurelius

Chillin’ like villains

Shot in Vancouver in the summer of ’94

Seems to forget that even the first strike was illegal

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

❗️"Agreements with the Russians are impossible — the Russian Federation is based entirely on lies", — Polish President Nawrocki "We are dealing only with lies, a desire to destroy and kill. This is an important lesson for each of us." Source: ZSU Insider Tg

KINGS OF THE WEST 👑 #VWFC | #OwnTheSummit

"Simply put, the agreement elevates Alberta to a quasi-sovereign actor to be treated as an equal with Canada, while BC, site of any future hypothetical pipeline terminus, is not part of the framework discussion at all." open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...

The Beaverton speaks with CBC News about how Time Magazine mistook a fake quote for real facts!

The question really isn’t whether or not Ukraine will join NATO, but at what point will NATO join Ukraine?

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild Orca Moose Black bear Tarantula Beaver

GM Oshawa has received $777 million from the gov't. #CorporateWelfare doesn't work. Unifor workers threaten to occupy GM plant in Ingersoll if company removes any equipment #canpoli #labourrights #unifor #unions #canada #labour rabble.ca/labour/unifo...

Someone needs to explain to Ken Sim that trickle down economics has never worked @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

Genius

Today marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.    Every Canadian deserves to be free from violence. This is not just a moral imperative — it is key to building a safer and more equitable Canada for everyone.

Great album

This is your chance to vote for Oxford’s Word of the Year. corp.oup.com/word-of-the-....

Fires are still burning in the Arctic in the winter. The climate catastrophe is here. Spending political energy to massively increase pipeline production in Canada is not nation-building. It is planet burning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🇩🇪 After the G20 summit in, Merz stressed that none of the six G7 countries, except the US, has shown any willingness to see Russia back in the group. A decision is possible only with full consensus. 🇫🇷 Macron said that there are currently no grounds for Russia to return.

I retired from the military at 40 as a straight GOP ticket voter. Looking around and seeing how many people lacked the things we service members took for granted (health care, subsidized housing, good schools on base, and so on) started moving me further and further to the left as time went on.